Your post is really touching for me. In the last months I often thought about the old age and death, because my parents (and the dad of Paolo too) are not young and powerful as before, but they started to be vulnerable and it's sad for me. My father is always been a good father, a simple man full of love for the family, but in the last year he had some health problems and I was a little worried for him. Fortunately now he seems to be enough in health and my mother (they are married from 47 years) can take care of him for the little (but important) daily things.